The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-09-21
a CHAPTER ON WIGS.
What They Cost and How They are BUM
by New York Artists.

by New York Artists.
Some kind and humorous friend sent
the writer wig manufacturer cata-
logue, with note advising him to lay
it up against rainy day. The young
man went forth and had speech with
the maker of thatches, and so he is able
to tell you, gentle reader. word or two
about wigs. Starting off with plain
welt wig at $15, you can run up scale
of prices that ends at $50 for men and
at 800 for women. The wigmaker
doesn't call himself wigmaker nova
DAYS. Far be it from him. He is pro-
prietor of an etabtissemeH Francois,
wherein are designed and created
toupees, bandeau1 and like appurten-
ances, (which possess the valuable dess-
derat,m of combining naturalness and
durability" Why, do you ask, are all
these fine English. Latin and French
words thrown at the trembling bald
headed man? Merely in order to reas-
sure him and awaken the idea in his
paper-shcll mind that his contemplated
new wig will fool all beholders by its
glossiness even as the polyglot jumbo
leaves him in the dark as to what the
wig creator is driving at.
The man of moderate means who has
tarried too long at play with the Ara
pahoes and comes home without any
covering for his pate ought to buy a
plain welt wig, price SIS. If he be
elderly, it will cost him from SIG to $50,
according to the grayness thereof. He
can get a like wig with gauze seam
for $40, or, if he is proud and naughty.
with fat bank account, he may take
fancy to the welt wig with bair-net
seam at $25. Gray wigs of the latter
styles cost from s22 to $685. The triumph
of the pilatory art, however, is the
ventilating wig, with hair-net seam,
from s35 up to $50. 1t weighs only an
ounce and quarter, is made with cro-
Chef needles and has naive innocence
and glossy waviness that would fool
the most hardened cynics. Even the
"part" of ordinary homegrown hair Is
faithfully initiated in it. Toupees are
simply scalp-wigs and run in size from
as big as silver dollar to the area of
an ordinary pie plate. They are fast
ened to the head by means of a patent
sticky preparation and they never fall
off, no matter how hard the wind may
blow. The price varies from $40 to
$25. If gray-haired man INDUCES in
one he has to pay higher than any body
else.
AS for ladies' wigs, hear the manu-
facturer's cute little appeal. He says
he desires respectfully to inform ladies
who may need these well-devised and
cunningly artificial means of conceal
ing the loss of that hair which is Justly
considered one, at least, of their glories,
that they may come to him with the
fullest confidence and reliance that he
can successfully supply their need, and
help them to the conviction, when they
behold themselves in their mirrors, that
the loss which they have sustained has
been, as far as possible, and certainly
to all appearances, successfully re-
stored.
HE further desires to say that the
prices of these wigs vary, according to
the color and length of the hair, and
the quality of workmanship, from
ten to one hundred dollars. Orders
may be sent by letter, with measure
ment.
Ladies' whose hair is thin on top Of
the head only can be supplied with a
suitable front piece, and in cases
where the bald spot is large with a
half-wig having hair which falls
towards the back, and can be fastened
in with the natural hair of the wearer.
The prices of these half-wigs are from
ten to fifty dollars. IN. Y. World.